A phrase commonly seen on signs outside Los Angeles brothels during Axis occupation (1949-1963). "Pool for Two" euphemistically advertised that the establishment offered American "comfort women" to officers of the occupying Imperial Japanese Army.
Critically acclaimed novel and later film about the doomed love affair of two teenage lesbians in a Catholic hospital in Austria during the Soviet invasion.
A book of poems by the great Maori author Aea Ka Huru Manu, focusing on the main theme of culture clash. One of the most famous is "The Frozen Waste", a historical fiction epic about the failed Anglo-Maori effort to colonize Antarctica.
A 1896 Britannic propaganda film set in the early 20th century and considered to be the medium's first masterpiece. The film depicts a devastating invasion of London by an alliance of european republics in the near-future. Despite it's popularity the film's fear-mongering could not prevent the fall of the monarchy to domestic revolution just five years afer it's release.
A documentary about a suspected case of mass hysteria which took place in the small Iranian village of Marin in 1998. The village's entire population of three-hundred people became convinced that a sinister, unseen force was watching them from the sky with panic spreading through the village over a period of several weeks, ultimately necessitating the intervention of government security forces.
A lawsuit over who had the rights to the Indiana Jones franchise.
